Sunny weather, stunning beaches and area theme parks may be a big draw for visitors coming to San Diego, but so too are craft beer, college bowl games, regattas and a rock-and-roll-themed marathon.

While San Diego’s appeal as a tourist destination is well known, many of the city’s year-round events already familiar to locals still depend on aggressive marketing to entice out-of-towners to pay a visit.

That won’t be happening this year, the first time in several years that no marketing funds will be available to groups as diverse as the Craft Brewers Guild and San Diego Bowl Game Association, and organizers of the San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival.

Together, about a dozen of the organizations that typically get a share of the city’s marketing money are credited with generating tens of thousands of hotel room nights over and above what would have normally been expected.

“We expect attendance will be negatively impacted this year because we don’t have the funds to tell people outside the market to come to San Diego during a slow period of the year to enjoy our Beer Week,” said Chris Cramer, CEO of Karl Strauss Brewing. Last year, the November event was estimated to have generated more than 3,600 room nights over a 10-day period. “And it’s not only a negative impact on Beer Week, but also beer tourism that will be felt throughout this entire next year because we will not be able to do any promotion,” he said.

Each year, organizations compete for marketing moneys that are doled out by the city’s hotelier-run Tourism Marketing District.

At stake is nearly $30 million in funds the city collects via a 2 percent surcharge on hotel room bills. Much of the money, however, will be frozen this fiscal year because of pending litigation challenging the room levy. The funds are being released only as hotel owners submit signed indemnification agreements that would protect the city’s general fund in the event the assessment is overturned and refunds are requested. Most owners, however, have refused to sign the agreements, leaving the city with a fraction of the tourism marketing money it’s accustomed to.

Here’s a look at some of the key groups that will be without funding for the 2013-14 fiscal year and the hotel nights they’ve generated based on audits conducted for the 2012 fiscal year.

When the Brewers Guild initially got its funding, it agreed to stage the event in November because that time is typically slower for local hotels and other hospitality-related businesses. As San Diego’s craft beer scene has grown, along with the 10-day festival, so too has the number of people coming from outside San Diego for the event.